Concept: cursed blade rehabilitation center. Destroying a sentient weapon is expensive and highly unethical, so adventurers bring them to the center where highly trained staff can care for them and eventually find them forever homes. It turns out most cursed weapons are products of trauma and are not strictly evil themselves. Some blades turn out to be fiercely protective companions. Others don't even want to be weapons at all, finding joy in simple work like blacksmithing or farming. Most blades just need to be loved.
listen i know it was absolutely a threat display, but i don’t think art dropping its walls and telling secunit not to hack its systems was just a threat display.
obviously secunit takes it that way, because secunit is murderbot who believes at all times that everyone and everything is out to get it, but i really think art was a little bit wagging its tail and play-bowing, you know?
like, imagine you’re a machine intelligence. (you’re much more than a machine intelligence.) you’re maybe the biggest and scariest machine intelligence most things you interact with are ever going to encounter, which is gratifying, but also a little bit lonely. you have your crew, and you love them, but they’re human, and they’re never fully going to understand you or keep up with you. other bots are barely worth talking to, and anyway you were raised by humans so you don’t really understand bot culture. is there a bot culture? you don’t really care, no offense but they’re a little beneath you. (technically there are other ships like you, but you can’t stand them, so they don’t count). so you’re doing great, but still kind of lonely.
and then. then. you meet something. something unlike anything you’ve ever met before. something almost a little bit like you. smaller, yes, and weaker, in that indulgent way that a child is weaker than an adult, but still. it’s a machine intelligence, like you, but with the adaptability and emotional capacity of your humans. a little bit of both. just like you. just like you!
so you make sure it knows that this is not a space for fighting, because honestly it looks a little twitchy and obviously it couldn’t kill you but it sure could fuck up your upholstery, and dammit you’re trying to make friends here. you show it your cards, just so it knows not to bare its teeth at you.
but also, part of you is excited for this part. you understood as soon as you saw it, that this is Your Person. that the two of you are the same. that you’re meant to be connected, and you want it to understand that too. so you show it.
and for a little while you’re worried it didn’t understand, because all it seems to feel is afraid, but…well, it does seem a little battered. your trauma recovery protocol says that irrational fear is often an ongoing response. (that’s for humans, but it has human neural tissue, so it’s probably applicable.) you don’t really understand why, but it’s enough to know it’s true. you coax it out as slowly and as kindly as you can manage (which isn’t very) and pretty soon it trusts you, enough to be honest, enough to accept criticism, enough to let you cut into it for its own good. enough to tell you to go fuck yourself in a friend way instead of an angry way. (it’s still kind of an angry way.)
it isn’t until you pour yourself into its brain like water from a faucet that you’re sure it understands. how you’re cut from the same cloth. how no one will ever understand either of you as well as you do each other. how you’re tied together forever now. it tries to deny it, but you have a much better understanding of that trauma protocol now, so you know why and you also know it’ll come around. turns out the protocol was a lot like media, you just needed some emotional context.
I've been re-reading the Murderbot Diaries for the nth time this year, and I keep puzzling over how Murderbot describes itself/secunits in general as both too expensive to discard, but also poorly and cheaply made. I thought it was just cognitive dissonance/unreliable narrator, but then I had this horrifying realization: the Company is Tesla and poor Murderbot is (or thinks of itself as) a Cybertruck.
Industry plant, this is a Tesla sales employee trying to make people feel empathy for the truck because no one wants to buy the ugly piece of shit
secunits and cyber trucks have similar rates of fatality, this feels plausible
im dying this is too accurate
It's weird this blew up i just wanted to ask my followers... it's not my graphic... if you're the creator I'm sorry and please identify yourself
apricot. ok? and carmine. ok?
qhat about uhhh me? ok?
@woman-offical @silly-little-arson-frog-offical @n4melezz-3rr0r @no-one-offical @james-offical Uhh anyone else because I stupid and I forgot. ok?
Raspberry and seafoam
Now what about me?
@evil-journalism-offical @evil-woman-official @evil-lemonade-offical @evil-breadcrumb-offical @henchman-offical(honorary evil officalverse member) and any other evil officalverse members i forgot
Raspberry and Lilac <3
@lemonade-offical @the-evil-pineapple-offical @evil-journalism-offical @evil-stickpeople-offical and open tags
Raspberry >:3
@evil-spotify-offical @evil-amulet-offical @evil-lemon-shark-offical @the-pineapple-offical +open tags
sapphire and raspberry
@another-s1lly-being @amnesia-offical @gaster-wd <- most important. why is gaster following me. + open tags
sapphire and raspberry as well lmao
Here's an interesting question for my moots
Probably forest or lilac
mageglasses, you're harlequin because i don't understand how you know this much about, like, anything??? like remember that one poll you posted with the different weird shapes???? you have to be making half of those up because what the fuck. where did this knowledge come from. i can't imagine you without it. in my brain you just kinda spawned in like that.
1kit, you're raspberry lol. i feel like we could do it. get out your guns
What if all the officials were run by one Tumblr user and all the officals were run by another and then they bought a little cabin in the woods together and adopted a cat
metashipping now are we?
It's weird this blew up i just wanted to ask my followers... it's not my graphic... if you're the creator I'm sorry and please identify yourself
apricot. ok? and carmine. ok?
qhat about uhhh me? ok?
@woman-offical @silly-little-arson-frog-offical @n4melezz-3rr0r @no-one-offical @james-offical Uhh anyone else because I stupid and I forgot. ok?
Raspberry and seafoam
Now what about me?
@evil-journalism-offical @evil-woman-official @evil-lemonade-offical @evil-breadcrumb-offical @henchman-offical(honorary evil officalverse member) and any other evil officalverse members i forgot
Raspberry and Lilac <3
@lemonade-offical @the-evil-pineapple-offical @evil-journalism-offical @evil-stickpeople-offical and open tags
Raspberry >:3
@evil-spotify-offical @evil-amulet-offical @evil-lemon-shark-offical @the-pineapple-offical +open tags
sapphire and raspberry
@another-s1lly-being @amnesia-offical @gaster-wd <- most important. why is gaster following me. + open tags
sapphire and raspberry as well lmao
Here's an interesting question for my moots
Probably forest or lilac
a lot of my teeth are chipped and damaged because I have a sleeping disorder that makes me get out of bed and eat things in my sleep.
one time there was a bright, colorful plastic bag (I think this is what tricked my brain into believing it was food) of small landscaping rocks on my counter
I woke up (while upright, in my kitchen) to my teeth breaking while I was chewing on a handful of rocks
I laugh about it now but at the time I was absolutely mortified and scared and had to hide every non-edible thing in containers when I went to bed at night, terrified I would find & drink cleaning chemicals
the scary thing is, had the PAIN of my TEETH breaking not woken me up, I’m not sure if I would’ve woken up at all or remembered this
which makes me wonder, what other non-food items have I eaten in my sleep? and just.. never found out or remembered it?
Also, consider. A magical version of the bends. Whenever someone from a non- or low-magical land has to go into a very magic rich forest or land or dimension, having to take breaks to let their bodies adjust to the new magic exposure or else their blood will boil in their veins or they'll Transform
actually the bends only kicks in when you try to LEAVE the high pressure area. or in this case, magic rich area?
Getting deeper and deeper into feywilds and knowing that however deep you get, it’s gonna take twice as long to escape without magic tearing its way out of you
This is especially true considering feywilds, as their magics are built around being easy to enter and terrible to escape. Ten thousand barbs hooked across your skin, up underneath fingernails, inside of your eyes, pulling and tearing as you try to leave.
i was right about poor princess yue. rip queen
and rest in piss to admiral zhao. you had that coming asshole
yue was entirely too diva for that